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Haim Ramon

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt after receiving the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2024 (Karlspreis) on May 9, 2024 in Aachen, western Germany. (INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
February 7, 2026, 6:20 am
Leading rabbi says he rejected mass Russian conversion plan mulled in Epstein audio
After ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak heard backing engineering demographics, exiled Moscow chief rabbi reveals former minister asked him about matter, says it sounded ‘extremely racist’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
2020 portrait of former minister Haim Ramon. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 4, 2021, 4:21 am
Former justice minister, billionaire among Israelis named in ‘Pandora Papers’
Papers raise suspicions Haim Ramon was ‘straw man’ for Austrian billionaire Martin Schlaff, and mining magnate Beny Steinmentz tried to squirrel away $1 billion in Cook Islands
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Likud MK Michal Shir at an orientation day at the Knesset, April 29, 2019. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset)
December 22, 2020, 3:58 pm
Renegade Likud MK quits after hastening election; colleague calls her a ‘bitch’
Michal Shir will join Gideon Sa’ar’s breakoff party New Hope; Osnat Mark takes back insult but maintains that defector was ‘insolent’ for voting against bill delaying national vote
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 7, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
December 20, 2020, 10:24 am
Crunch time for Gantz, Netanyahu as last-ditch talks held to avoid elections
No deal by Tuesday night means automatic vote; defense minister said to agree to chip away at justice minister’s powers, angering party members; Blue and White denies report
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Before and after satellite images of the Syrian nuclear reactor at al-Kibar, which was reportedly struck by Israel in 2007.(AP/DigitalGlobe)
June 6, 2018, 6:12 am
MKs warned about Syria’s nuke plans years before 2007 reactor strike – report
Committee headed by Yuval Steinitz sent PM Sharon a memo in 2004 saying that Damascus was working on a nuclear program
By ToI Staff
Haim Ramon in the Knesset in 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 31, 2018, 1:03 pm
Former minister convicted of indecent act vows to sue if called ‘sex offender’
Haim Ramon, convicted in 2007 of forcing kiss on young soldier, rejects bid by ‘extremist feminist group’ to stop him from lecturing next year at Tel Aviv University
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 29, 2016, 3:20 am
‘Vindictive’ Israel too quick to put its politicians under investigation?
Israel is not corrupt by world standards, says poli-sci Prof. Yossi Shain. And while leaders who cross lines should certainly be punished, he argues, the country has become unduly hasty to incriminate
By Andrew Tobin
Haim Ramon in the Knesset in 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 7, 2016, 7:35 pm
Former minister: Israel must separate from East Jerusalem or lose city
Haim Ramon says if capital’s 320,000 Palestinian residents were to vote, next mayor ‘will be the Mufti’s grandson’
By ToI Staff
Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 14, 2014, 6:06 am
10 Israeli public figures sentenced to jail terms
A president, a PM, a finance minister — the non-comprehensive list of convicted politicians over the past 20 years
By AP and ToI Staff
Judge Vardi Zeiller attends a committee meeting at the Knesset on March 26, 2008. (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
April 3, 2013, 3:16 am
Former judge Vardi Zeiller dies
Jerusalem judge oversaw major government probes of police corruption, construction disaster
By ToI Staff
MK Stav Shaffir (to the right of wedding couple) participates in a Reform Jewish wedding ceremony in front of the Knesset, in protest of the Orthodox rabbinate's monopoly on marriage licensing and the lack of civil marriage in Israel. (Flash90)
March 25, 2013, 5:31 am
Coalition truly could offer chance for civil marriage, expert argues
Professor Pinhas Shifman says legislation can be changed to secure Israel as a Jewish and democratic state where people marry as they wish
By Aaron Kalman
President Shimon Peres (L) and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu meet at the President's residence in Jerusalem, February 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
August 17, 2012, 6:09 pm
Likud politicians slam Peres for saying Israel can’t ‘go it alone’ against Iran
President’s former allies on the center-left are more supportive, he goes silent, and his aides say he respects the prime minister
By Ilan Ben Zion and Sam Ser
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni and prime minister Ehud Olmert, pictured at a cabinet meeting in 2008; Shaul Mofaz is to Livni's right. (photo credit Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
July 10, 2012, 4:44 pm
Comeback for Olmert? Not so fast, experts say
The former prime minister has several options for a political return, but two more legal obstacles to clear first — and a battle in the court of public opinion
By Raphael Ahren
Eli Tabib, former owner of the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 4, 2012, 6:18 pm
Former Hapoel Tel Aviv owner indicted for assaulting a minor, obstructing justice
Group led by former MK Haim Ramon buys the soccer team for NIS 12 million
By Gabe Fisher
Shaul Mofaz arrives at his first Kadima meeting as the new head of the party (photo credit: by Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 3, 2012, 7:16 pm
No matter which way Mofaz turns, the party is over
With his draft law proposal sabotaged by the PM, and his colleagues rebelling, the vice PM’s unity gambit is proving to be Kadima’s death blow
By Raphael Ahren
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